Link tracking

[puntademita]

We are wondering how would we go about tracking a link on our home page that links away.

We would like to count the traffic away and if possible where they came from.

Any help would be appreicated.

Gracias

[Gorkfu]

If you want visitor statistics there are 2 choices available in ops under:
Services/HTTP/Visitor Statistics

There's also many others you can find on the web, but you would have to install them yourself.

[stevel]

Usually the way you track links away from your site is to have it actually link to a script on your site that does a redirect to the real URL. The script can count each use or you can use normal web stats to see how many times the redirect was activated.

[BerksWebGuy]

Alot of sites using something like
www.oursite.com/redirect.php?site=2245
or similiar.

The redirect.php script would track the link and redirect the user. Check out www.HotScripts.com for some scripts.

[puntademita]

Usually the way you track links away from your site is to have it actually link to a script on your site that does a redirect to the real URL. The script can count each use or you can use normal web stats to see how many times the redirect was activated.

Any suggestions as to where I might start looking for a script that can count and redirects to the real URL

Agains thank to all of you for your help and assistence!!

Gracias

[puntademita]

How would one track the traffic that a link away from a web site is generating?

Gracias,

David

[BerksWebGuy]

How would one track the traffic that a link away from a web site is generating?

Look above for some previous answers.